The Neverending Story

Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film! From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life.

When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?

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Seite 245He opened the olive-green door - and then he was outside. To his surprise he
found himself not in the Grassy Ocean but in a bright springtime forest.
Sunbeams shone through the young foliage and played their games oflight and
shade on the ...

Seite 272And since these are all names of other things, none of us has made the stone
glow or opened the door. Can you find the name, Bastian Balthazar Bux?' A deep
, expectant silence fell on the Amarganthians and non-Amarganthians alike.

Seite 325Then Hydorn the Enduring opened his left eye and sang out: 'Hey, friends. Look
who's here!* The others managed to open their eyes and a smile crossed their
lips. *We knew you wouldn't leave us in the lurch!' cried Hydorn. 'How can I get
you ...

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LibraryThing Review

Nutzerbericht - DGRachel - LibraryThing

I’ve always been a bookworm, so when this film came out and I discovered it was based on a book, I had to read it. I was 9 when The Neverending Story came to the big screen and 10 when I read book for ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

LibraryThing Review

Nutzerbericht - DGRachel - LibraryThing

I’ve always been a bookworm, so when this film came out and I discovered it was based on a book, I had to read it. I was 9 when The Neverending Story came to the big screen and 10 when I read book for ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

Über den Autor (1983)

Michael Ende (www.michaelende.de) was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1929. After attending drama school from 1948 to 1950, he worked variously as an actor, a writer of sketches and plays, a director of the Volkstheater in Munich, and a film critic for the Bavarian broadcasting company. His first novel for children, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, was published in Germany in 1960 to great popular and critical acclaim, and both radio and televsion series based on the Jim Knopf books were soon produced. In 1973 he published another award-winning children's novel, Momo. When The Neverending Story was first published in Germany in 1979 it immediately became the number-one bestseller arnd remained in that position for three years. It has since been published in many different languages all over the world, including Japanese, and has enchanted readers in each country in which it has appeared.